I'm no expert myself, so I can't comment on the perl, but if as you say the "SunOS" is at the start of the line. > reboots which always start with the string SunOS and, if found, return
You may want to put a ^ in your regex to fix this. So, > if ($_ =~ /SunOS/) becomes: if ($_ =~ /^SunOS/) Otherwise it'll match if that occurs anywhere in the line. That may never be the case, but I don't know many answers so I have to leap at anything I do know ;) -- John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]